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Breakfield and Burkey

The Enigma Ignite

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A Texas university professor, quietly working in her animal husbandry field of study, finds her unconventional communication techniques have put her in the cross-hairs of multiple interested parties that feel they have a license to confiscate it. Her applied research of nanotechnology, coupled with hybrid programming methods has gotten her more attention than she wanted. In the cross-hairs of several military powers the question becomes: what does research to improve animal husbandry to boost global food supplies have in common with next generation high-tech military communications?
In competing for superior military power around the globe, it's not larger weapons or greater numbers of soldiers that top their wish lists. Instead, it's leveraging the latest technology improvements including nanotechnology, dynamic programming algorithms, and drones, working together to build the next generation of military communications. The race is on to be the military winner except some cyber terrorist have dealt themselves into the agenda. What challenges do these world powers need to overcome before emerging as the military winner?
Keith Austin Avery, engineer and U.S. defense department contractor, is on the hunt for new technology and leading-edge applications. His research draws the attention of a powerful terrorist group, with traumatic consequences for him and his subcontractor Eilla-Zan Marshall. Can they be forced to reveal the key confidential military plans, or is all this information already on the Dark Net?
The R-Group is engaged to locate these terrorists and their captives. Clarifying all data and using sophisticated analytics, they uncover more than they planned. Can they prove government corruption of a world power? Are secrets being kept from those who can help? Most importantly, how many will lose their lives in the fight to perfect advanced battlefield communications?
Jacob and Petra work closely with a powerful and talented team to uncover the latest technological inroads that can take best advantage of nanotechnology. Technology programs they uncover puts them in a dire race against time to save lives.
This fast-paced third installment of the Enigma Series, The Enigma Ignite, will have you keep you riveted until the very end. Award winning authors, Breakfield and Burkey, provide a solid espionage thriller that incorporates a satisfying balance of technology, tension, surprisingly sensitive romance, and the blurred lines that surround the age-old conflict between good and evil in the middle of the 21st century cyber playing field.

Author Biography

1st place winners of TxAuthors Best Book Series; ABR 5 star awards for audio books; InD'Tale Crowned Heart Awards; CIPA Merit Award; Short Story Winners multiple stories; Breakfield and Burkey bring their Techno-Thriller series to life.
Breakfield - A solution architect, for a high-tech manufacturer, who designs hybrid data/telecom environments. He is a technology geek, who enjoys writing, studying World War II, travel, and cultural exchanges. His love of wine tasting, cooking, and Harley riding has found inroads into the stories. As a child he moved often with his father’s military career, which even now helps his with the various character perspectives he helps bring to life in the series.
Burkey – Is a business architect who builds solutions for customers on a technology foundation. She has written many technology documents & white papers, but loves writing fiction. As a child she helped to lead kids with exciting new adventures built on make believe characters, a Girl Scout until high school, and contributed to the community as a young member of a Head Start program. Rox enjoys family, learning, listening to people, travel, outdoor activities, sewing, cooking, and thinking about how to diversify the series.
Reach out to them at Authors@EnigmaSeries.com

Author Insight

Always fast with the acronym

Quip is a genius when it comes to take technology past the bleeding edge. He continually adds and enhances functionality of his supercomputer and associated services. Like all good technologist he has learned the finer points of minimizing his speech with acronyms.
The tech world is filled with short terms that tend to mean more. In the case of Quip he takes it to a new level because he loves to have fun. Otto, his boss and long time associate loves to periodically get on the band wagon and poke a bit of fun to break tension.
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Book Excerpt

The Enigma Ignite

“I caught something in ICABOD’s dragnet for those terms Prudence provided. Boy, we might as well have been looking for a single Tweet during the World Cup Playoffs. Actually the lead is really too easy, almost like it was deliberately released into the ether hoping to be snagged.

“So, here’s what I got. A seasoned United States based defense contractor using two of the high profile terms we are looking at sent an email minutes before I alerted you. Attached to the email was a simple password protected document, which I cracked in less than fifteen seconds with ICABOD’s Pass-smash program. I would guess most crackers could open it in under ten minutes.

“Frankly, it was all too easy so I am running a Heuristic Objective Parallel Hunting Iteratively Neutral Search program that I have now named as HOPSING to see if there are parallel or intersection streams that might give me some more insight.”

Otto refused to comment on a software routine named HOPSING, yet said, “So are the source and destination addresses legitimate or were they bogus? I agree that it looks too convenient, but stranger things have happened. Have you scanned in the information and cross-referenced it to see if it was designed to give out false information, or was this just someone being extra sloppy and it just so happened that we caught it?”

“Otto, this is exactly what Prudence was looking for and the email is addressed to a Ms. Krumhunter, a name we already knew. The HOPSING routine basically mapped Ms. Krumhunter to the personage of Prudence from an email server in her facilities in Virginia.

“When you assemble all the pieces we have, it appears that Keith Avery has been working on a battlefield communications project for Ms. Krumhunter/Prudence. In his haste to get a report submitted on his findings to date he emailed it using his personal email account with almost no thought to it being intercepted. The report correctly maps out all the necessary components from two military organizations of different countries and postulates how they need to interoperate to deliver state of the art battlefield communications,” Quip grimly stated.

Otto nodded his head in agreement. “Well done, Quip. I need to alert Prudence of our electronic trail and that she has had a breach in her communications protocol, if she is even aware of how it should be set up. She has not seemed too knowledgeable thus far.”

Quip then looked straight at Otto with a very serious expression. “Otto, that’s not all. The report points to one of the key elements of the solution as a work in progress by a Professor Su Lin at Texas A&M involving nanotechnology. Wasn’t that where you recently sent Petra and Jacob?”

Otto blanched a little then quietly said, “Well, that’s reasonably inconvenient. Petra and Jacob have indicated that Professor Lin was not interested in interrupting her nano studies focused with animals to increase food production. She had stanchly stated no military efforts were in her future, certainly not building two way communications for combat troops.

“But, are you saying that this Keith Avery is suggesting that her research could be morphed into a battlefield communications solution?”

“Exactly! If we caught this communication we must assume that someone else has caught it. We likely have two groups who know about this and probably at least one or more competitors looking to crash the party, so to speak.”

Otto studied the situation turning each element over in his mind and realigning them. Time was not going to be a friend on this effort.

“Quip, let’s get Petra and Jacob working on this quickly before we run out of time. I expect Professor Su Lin is about to have many more visitors than she is going to be interested in receiving.

“I agree with your assessment so please continue to scan for other leads and now associated activity with Keith since he is now potentially at risk. It appears that your POPSINGER program has a hit single on the charts.”

Quip looked rather sullen at the comment then reminded, “The term is HOPSING Otto….”